Rick Perry is promoting TXU's efforts to build coal-burning plants all over Texas, all the while he's stuffing his bank account with thousands of dollars from TXU and their PACs, employees and concubines. Coal burning plants aren't exactly cutting edge technology and they are dirty. If you're like me when you hear about global warming and a scientist report alarming news that "in 100 years the coast will have a different landscape"--you just roll your eyes and think, "Geek."
But, what's up with the environment and nasty air and that stuff? Well, not much. Seems the Feds aren't regulating carbon dioxide emissions and neither is Texas. Here's some scientific facts even my pea-sized brain can comprehend.
This whole new coal-fired plants thing is literally the only thing anyone in the Texas environmental community is talking about these days, judging from some of the TCEQ meetings and environmental conferences I've been to lately. People are all over the place about it. I actually heard an idea floated that would require drivers to only use their cars every other day - that's how bad it's getting in Dallas and Houston - and Corpus Christi and Beaumont aren't far behind. The EPA is breathing down Texas' neck over ozone already. Definitely the best way to fix it is to allow *more* pollution-causing plants in the areas already so far out of attainment they don't even remember what it looks like.
Ooh, Coal. I'm so scared!
You libs are nuts. Coal is a lot cleaner than it used to be, and unlike oil, the U.S. has virtually unlimited supplies of it.
For all yer whinin' about how we need to be energy independent, you never have a realistic source to suggest. And solar power just won't cut it - you'd need a collector 4 times the size of Colorado to meet the U.S.'s yearly needs.
Why don't y'all join reality just for a moment and have a normal debate?
I'm not saying don't burn coal - I agree, there aren't great alternatives out there right now. The problem is slapping those plants smack in the wind path of an area that is already wildly out of attainment and scrabbling for every hundredth of a ppm in reductions it can get. It's a big ol' state on its own grid - can't the plants go somewhere else? Not to push the problem onto another part of the state, but they've got to go somewhere, and it's in the state's best interest for them not to go near D/FW.
Gee, thanks, Mr. Conservative Savrola. I guess you just love them coal plants?
More children developing asthma and resperitory problems?
More people dying from complications due to air pollution?
More fuel to the fire of global warming?
All A-OK with Savrola--none of these are problems, apparently, in his "reality."
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I do find it ironic that it seems that small or communities could care less about Dallas or Houston's air, considering that Dallas and Houston could give a damn about the small and rural communties in East Texas' water. Some of you guys really should take a drive across some of the bridges out here that go across our reservoirs. My God, I know it's been dry, but the majority of it is that Dallas and Houston continue to pull from them like there wasn't a drought, or like there is no end. If you live in one of these cities, please keep in mind that the water you are using during this horrendous drought is coming from somewhere. Thanks.